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   transit

   /ˈtranzɪt/

   noun

   • 1. the carrying of people or things from one place to another: "a painting was damaged in transit"
   • ▪ the conveyance of passengers on public transport. North American
   • 2. the action of passing through or across a place: "Guatemala is to have freedom of transit across Belize"
   • ▪ the passage of an inferior planet across the face of the sun, or of a moon or its shadow across the face of a planet: "the transits of Mercury across the sun's disc"
   • ▪ the apparent passage of a celestial body across the meridian of a place.
   • ▪ the passage of a celestial body through a specified sign, house, or area of a chart.

   verb

   • 1. pass across or through (an area): "the new large ships will be too big to transit the Panama Canal"
   • ▪ (of a planet or other celestial body) pass across (the face of another body, or a meridian): "at the end of February Jupiter transits the meridian"
   • ▪ (of a celestial body) pass across (a specified sign, house, or area of a chart).

   Word Origin late Middle English (denoting passage from one place to another): from Latin transitus, from transire ‘go across’.

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   Synonyms for TRANSIT in English: movement, transfer, transport, passage, travel, crossing, motion, transportation, carriage, shipment, ….

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   noun. These are words and phrases related to transit. Click on any word or phrase to go to its thesaurus page. Or, go to the definition of transit. Rapid transit has been extended to the city's suburbs. Synonyms. transportation. travel. motion. movement. passage. transference. conveyance.

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